“If you watched the Republican National Convention over the last three days, you wouldn’t know that we have the highest unemployment in five years because they didn’t say a thing about what is going on with the middle class,” he told workers at a glass factory in Duryea, Pa.

McCain and Palin spoke to a crowd of about 1,000 in front of an ice-cream store in Cedarburg, Wis.

“John McCain doesn’t run with the Washington herd,” Palin said, trying to further distance their campaign from the Bush administration.